Dreamgirls (DVD)

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *********Dreamgirls********** When I first joined my movie stream this was the top film on my list. Ive waited ages to see it. Was it worth the wait? Dreamgirls has an impressive cast. The main cast are as follows: Jamie Foxx - Curtis Taylor Beyonce Knowles - Deena Jones Eddie Murphy - Jimmy Early aka James 'Thunder' Early Jennifer Hudson - Effie White Danny Glover - Marty Madison Keith Robinson - C.C. White Anika Noni Rose - Lorell Robinson Sharon Leal - Michelle Morris It is directed by Bill Condon ...  Read the complete review

I usually tend to avoid films with a lot of hype around them but I suppose with Dreamgirls it wasn’t so much the hype rather a certain cast member. I am a Beyonce fan and do like her singing but I saw ‘The Fighting Temptations’ one of her previous acting roles and I wasn’t too moved by her acting it was just another singer singing in a role and calling it acting. Now, I suppose not a lot really changed in this film as yet again she still plays the role of a singer but I suppose this is her best role yet and is much better than her Austin Powers days. The film has won many awards which I was quite shocked by it has won somewhere around 40 awards which is pretty ...  Read the complete review

Its talent night at some club, the brightest young acts are all competing to win a cash prize, the mood is frantic, and music fills the air. In hurries Deena and Lorrell two members of the Dreamgirls, they are late and missing their lead singer. Eventually Effie arrives and they take to the amateur stage, singing a poppy, motown tune that grabs the attention of the young Curtis Taylor a used car salesman with big aspirations. He makes them agree to sign him as their manager and he quickly gets them a gig as the back-up singers for soul legend James Early... where they get enough attention to branch out on their own and try to make their trio successful in their own ...  Read the complete review

note: also appears in part on Flixster and The Student Room I am not a fan of musicals typically, but Dreamgirls, set in 1960s and 1970s America, depicting the rise and fall of black musicians of the period, is another beast altogether. It touches on numerous aspects of the musical climate of the time, noting how genres such as disco and funk emerged, while primarily revolving around three women - Effie White (Jennifer Hudson, who won an Oscar for her "acting"), Deena Jones (Beyonce Knowles), and Lorrell Robinson (Anika Noni Rose) - who formed the group eventually known as The Dreamettes. With the help of a slippery but brilliant agent named Curtis ...  Read the complete review

Dream Girls I was away the other weekend visiting my lovely sister in Dorset. I don't get to go that often, so it was nice. Anyway we all decided to sit and watch Dreamgirls. This is a review for the film only. This 2006 film has a great cast with Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Hudson, and Beyoncé Knowles and it is directed by Bill Condon. Plot **** The film follows the broadway musical dream girls, which l haven't seen myself. The film is set in the 1960's in Detroit. It is a film full of glamour, glitz and motown. This film is thought to parallel the lives of the group the supremes, ...  Read the complete review